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"He knew the value of hard work and having a fire in the belly to go after what you wanted to achieve," says the dean of West Texas A&M University's Engler College of Business.
"That fire in the belly is what helped Paul Engler, become a generous person as he believed if you make it and achieve success you need to give back by investing in education."
Engler, a cattle pioneer who founded what would become the largest cattle-feeding company in the world, died last week at the age of 94, the Amarillo Globe-News reports.
"He was a visionary and a generous man," says Angela Lust, executive director of the Paul Engler Foundation.
"His generosity will continue and his legacy will prevail through the Paul F.
Engler Foundation."
Engler and his wife, Virginia, moved to Texas in the early '50s to start what would become the largest cattle-feeding company in the world, according to the foundation's website.
They raised more than $1 million to build the Paul F.
Engler Foundation at West Texas A&M, KVII reports.
"Paul was certainly a person who wanted to give back to society," says the dean of Agriculture & Natural Sciences.
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